Source: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/health-workers-navigate-climate-change-bolivian-amazon

Imagine having to zip-line to visit the doctor’s office. Patients in Bolivia’s Amazon Basin live this reality. Centro Medico Susan Hou, located in Palacios, Santa Cruz, has implemented such a zipline system to ensure that patients can reach health-care services during times of flooding, a direct response to Bolivia’s changing weather patterns and the life-threatening conditions that climate change poses to accessing health care in rural communities. 

Community health worker programs are vital to improving health-care access, but without direct action climate change will undermine their progress in rural Bolivian communities.